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On 20 Apr 1993, David Valentine wrote:

> I was thinking about the thesaurus funtion. Most disciplines already have a
> published thesaurus which is used for indexing their abstract/citation
> indexes. They have already worked out a term levels for each discipline. If
> niles could convice thesaurus creators to  could  provide the thesaurii for
> endnote, the levels for each term would already be worked out. Niles could
> leave it up to each thesauri provider to either distribute the thesauri
> themselves, or via niles. More people would use the function if they could
> just purchase the thesaurii, instead of creating their own.

I would like to respectfully disagree. None of the biological indexes that
I have seen are constructed in a manner that I find useful. My thoughts
are apparently organized using a different hierarchy than most other
people's ;-). The suggestion made previously in this list that I liked
(sorry, but I have forgotten who gets credit for the idea) was a simple
scrolling, editable, window from which the desired keywords could be
chosen and pasted into the chosen field. I suspect this implementation
would be easier than the above and, therefore, sooner found on our hard
drives. I hate long waits for good ideas to come to fruition :-).

Vaughn M. Gehle, Ph.D.                Internet: gehle@ibg.colorado.edu
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